MAIDENHEAD, England, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- First-in-Class Treatment set to Provide a New and Important Targeted Treatment for Distressing and near Universal Side Effect in Patients Receiving Opioids for Pain Relief as Part of Palliative Care

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, today 3rd July, announced that it has received EMEA marketing approval for Relistor(TM) (methylnaltrexone bromide) subcutaneous injection. This first-in-class treatment is indicated for opioid-induced constipation (OIC) in patients with advanced illness who are receiving palliative care, when response to the usual laxative therapy has not been sufficient.

HONG KONG, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

OrbusNeich today announced that data presented recently at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Interventional Cardiology demonstrate that the Genous Bio-engineered R stent has better outcomes when compared to drug-eluting stents.

Presented by Federico Piscione, M.D., the study's principal investigator and a professor with the Federico II University of Naples's Division of Cardiology, Department of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Sciences, the data were generated following a study that involved 257 consecutive high-risk patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention with either the Genous stent or a TAXUS(R) and CYPHER(R) stent at the university's catheterization lab.

MILPITAS, California, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- UK Service Provider Taps JDSU Service Assurance Solutions to Support Wide-scale Deployment of Next Generation Network and Advanced IP/Broadband Services

JDSU today announced it has entered into a contract to provide service assurance test solutions to The Carphone Warehouse Networks (CPWN), one of the largest and most advanced telecom networks in the UK, and a wholly-owned division of the fixed line and broadband business of The Carphone Warehouse (CPW) Group plc. The JDSU service assurance system, NetComplete, will support the design, implementation and management of the Next Generation Network (NGN) for CPWN, covering both its residential and business customers via local loop unbundling.

BARCELONA, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The winners of the Ferring Research Infertility and Gynaecology GrAnt (FRIGGA) are announced today at the European Society for Human Reproduction & Embryology Congress. The two winners of this new prize are the University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands and the Universitair Ziekenhuis (UZ) Brussel, Centre for Reproductive Medicine,Belgium.

The winning research institutions were selected for their outstanding proposals for fundamental research to help gain an increased understanding of the role of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) in assisted reproduction.

LONDON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

ICE Clear Europe(TM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), today announced that it has reached consensus with LCH.Clearnet (LCH) on the technical issues to facilitate the movement of all ICE Futures Europe(TM) and ICE over-the-counter (OTC) trading positions from LCH to ICE Clear Europe. Under the technical framework, ICE expects the transition of clearing to ICE Clear Europe to occur during the month of August, with a specific transition date to be finalized in the coming days following consultation with clearing members.

The existing futures and OTC clearing arrangements between ICE and LCH will remain in effect until the transition is complete.

HERTZLIA, Israel, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- All They Need is Just to Find Each Other

A new initiative by a web2.0 company comes to solve a long inherent problem in the advertisement market. Xywidgets which specializes in service oriented widgets, and that recently presented Bnarrator, a website narration widget, has opened http://www.Getadnet.com which is a meeting place between advertisers and ad networks.

The problem which Getadnet addresses is a communication barrier between the companies wishing to advertise their products or services, and the ad networks or the newer ad representative firms.

A genome sequence is a long sequence written in a four letter code—3 billion letters in the case of a human genome. How genomic code is deciphered is traditionally left to professional annotators who use information from a number of sources (for instance, knowledge about similar genes in other organisms) to work out where a gene starts, stops and what it does. Even the "gold standard" of professional annotation is an exceptionally slow process.

However, new crowdsourcing technology hopes to provide a faster solution. Don't cringe, scientists, but it's Wikipedia.

Andrew Su, John Huss III and colleagues have established a 'Gene Wiki', an online repository of information on human genes, within Wikipedia. They envision a network of articles, created by a computer program and enhanced by user comments, which will describe the relationship and functions of all human genes.

A new study challenges the long-held belief that diversity of marine species has been increasing continuously since the origin of animals.

An international team carried out this decade-long study and concludes that most of the diversification occurred early on – relatively speaking.

"The general understanding for many decades has been that since the rise of the modern major groups of animals about 545 million years ago (i.e., since the beginning of the Phanerozoic Era), the diversity of animal life in the seas has undergone a roughly four-fold exponential increase," says Dr. Thomas D. Olszewski, a geology and geophysics professor at Texas A&M University. A steep increase in the diversity was believed to have occurred only between 145 million and 60 million years ago.